In the first test match between India and South Africa, South Africa won the test match by an innings and 32 runs with India due to great performance in batting and bowling. After winning this test match, South Africa leads by (1-0) in the two test match series against India.

Earlier, South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl first thus India first batted and was all out at only 245 runs in the first inning due to great bowling by Kagiso Rabada 5/59 (20), Nandre Burger 3/50 (15.4), Marco Jansen 1/52 (16), and Gerald Coetzee 1/74 (16). K.L. Rahul 101 (137), Virat Kohli 38 (64), Sreyas Iyer 31 (50), and Shardul Thakur 24 (33) were good batting from the Indian side.

South Africa was all out at 408 runs in the first innings due to great batting by Dean Elgar 185 (287), Marco Jansen 84* (147), David Bedingham 56 (87), Tony de Zorzi 28 (62), and Gerald Coetzee 19 (18). Jasprit Bumrah 4/69 (26.4), Mohammed Siraj 2/91 (24), Ravichandran Ashwin 1/41 (19), Prasidh Krishna 1/93 (20), and Shardul Thakir 1/101 (19) were good bowling from the Indian side. After this inning, South Africa leads by 163 runs in the first test match against India.

India was all out at only 131 runs in the second innings due to great bowling by Nandre Burger 4/33 (10), Marco Jansen 3/36 (7.1), and Kagiso Rabada 2/32 (12). Both Virat Kohli 76 (82), and Shubman Gill 26 (37) were good batting from the Indian side

Dean Elgar (SA), 185 (287), was declared as the Player of the Match due to his great performance in batting